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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Taylorcraft BC12-65
N33976 is a Taylorcraft BC12-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hinsdale, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 7, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-65 · all BC12-65s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2828
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A3BAAA (octal 50735252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · April 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00422393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Earls Matthews
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 356
Hinsdale, MT 59241-0356
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N33976 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 1,225 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,898 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,967 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Hinsdale, MT 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Hinsdale Airport · 6U5
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 86 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N33976, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Earls Matthews, an individual, certificate issued February 7, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1956, 15 years after the 1941 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N33976 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N33976: Accident on April 13, 1997 at Plentywood, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Taylorcraft BC12-65 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing and failure to maintain control of the airplane. Factors relating to the accident included: the pilot's lack of recent experience in the tailwheel aircraft, his inadequate recurrent training, and rough/uneven terrain adjacent to the landing runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data